San Francisco

Locals love to scorn this huge, multilevel black-painted club, but there's nothing like hearing a big-name DJ on its fantastic sound system. On the main dance...more

This large, warehouselike space is a gallery and performance venue as well as a bar and club. In the main room, eccentric local art is displayed. On the dance...more

With copper-topped tables, checkerboard-tile floor, and antique mirrors, genteel Absinthe evokes a French brasserie of the Belle Epoque. Its excellent cocktail...more

Local nightlife entrepreneurs Vintage415 command crowds of beautiful people with slick venues, good drinks, and stellar DJ lineups. Their latest venture, the...more

Skip the tired dinner theater of Teatro Zinzanni popular with other tourists, and instead visit Asia SF to admire its gender illusionists. Unlike drag queens,...more

Situated in an authentic 1920s speakeasy, Bourbon & Branch is SF's answer to New York and London's Milk & Honey—an unmarked watering hole in...more

Dozens of votive candles cast a honeyed glow upon coppery tequila-hued walls and neo-tropical wallpaper inside this cozy Latin art salon and "culinary...more

The Sunday afternoon beer bust at the Eagle Tavern is—by far—the biggest daytime boy-bar scene in the city. Everyone from leather-clad biker dudes...more

Once a 1920s dance hall, the Fillmore is decorated with concert posters dating back to its heyday in the mid-'60s, when legendary rock producer Bill Graham...more

One wall of this restaurant's expansive heated courtyard functions as a screen for art-house foreign films—but most patrons don't actually watch the...more